Saluting all the good and great theists we have had on this site.

[Mudhammam]

Boethius is near and dear to my heart. As he sat in prison awaiting execution it was not to Jesus he turned but to philosophy. Tertullian, in his capacity as a public defender and not as an intellectual, is endearing; Augustine, when he's introspective, as a rhetorician is topnotch. Abelard and Origen, premier thinkers in their day, were decent, though I feel towards them what Nietzsche rightly felt towards Pascal: Christianity cannot be forgiven for what it did to them. Dostoyevsky is probably thee best author I have come across - so in whatever capacity his religion shines, there's something to admire. Come to think of it, virtually no writer until Hobbes is openly atheist, so pretty much of all the ancients that I'm fond of can be credited as being (poly)theists.